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The Financially Free Author Show with Carolyn Choate
Carolyn Choate
89 episodes
1 week ago
If you're a solopreneur, author, or small business owner who is perplexed by marketing, this podcast is for you! Join me as I interview experts in website traffic, tools for online businesses, and get our burning questions answered. Like, what is the role of blogging in 2025? How do Facebook ads work for small businesses? How can I learn to publish my own books?
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If you're a solopreneur, author, or small business owner who is perplexed by marketing, this podcast is for you! Join me as I interview experts in website traffic, tools for online businesses, and get our burning questions answered. Like, what is the role of blogging in 2025? How do Facebook ads work for small businesses? How can I learn to publish my own books?
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The Financially Free Author Show with Carolyn Choate
You Aren’t the Main Character of Your Biz ft. Adi Soozin (Marketing Secrets That Drive Revenue)

Raw and unedited real talk with Adi Soozin covering the truth about wealth, why you aren’t the hero, small details that change everything, increasing engagement by finding out what people want, and so much more! https://adisoozin.com/

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5 months ago
1 hour 13 minutes 37 seconds

The Financially Free Author Show with Carolyn Choate
This Author’s Launches Start With 200 Reviews—Here’s How He Does It

Most Authors Struggle for Reviews—He Gets 200+ Before His Book Even Drops. Robbie Samuels takes the same basic book launch strategy we all use and amps it up with a staggering amount of strategy, making his launches the most successful in the industry. Listen to him explain not only how he gets hundreds of reviews for his launches but also how being an author is less a marathon and more a triathlon, and why you shouldn’t fear people stealing your idea (and it’s not the reason you think!)👉 Want to see Robbie’s next launch unfold in real-time?Join his launch team and get an insider’s pass to every step of the process.Sign up here: www.BookLaunchBrainstorm.comYou’ll get:* A behind-the-scenes look at how Robbie coordinates his high-impact launches* Access to his private launch team communications* Real-time strategies for gathering reviews, engaging readers, and gaining traction fastDon’t just learn about successful book marketing—experience it from the inside.You can also get a free book launch brainstorming call with Robbie and other goodies from the same link and the Biz Book Pub Hub

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5 months ago
53 minutes 13 seconds

The Financially Free Author Show with Carolyn Choate
Blogging and SEO in 2025: What Actually Works Now (Interview with Ricky Kesler of Income School)

As a long-time blogger myself, I've been watching the changing Google and AI landscape wondering if SEO still works and if there's even a reason to blog anymore. So I invited Ricky Kesler, co-founder of Income School here on YouTube and owner of Project 24, to come talk to me about how to keep blogging relevant in the new AI world.Learn more about Project 24 here: https://project24.incomeschool.com/?affiliate_code=751d43(affiliate link)If you’re a content creator, blogger, or online entrepreneur wondering whether blogging is still worth your time—or how to adapt without starting from scratch—you need this episode.We cover:* Why search traffic is shifting fast (and where it’s going)* The biggest blogging mistakes creators are still making* How to future-proof your content in an AI-saturated world* What still works (and what’s dead) in SEO* How Ricky and the Income School team are navigating this new era🔥 Whether you’re just starting or 500 posts deep, this episode will challenge what you think you know and equip you with forward-thinking strategies to stay ahead.📌 Don't forget to subscribe for more smart, practical insights for creators and solopreneurs who want to grow without the fluff.

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6 months ago
26 minutes 9 seconds

The Financially Free Author Show with Carolyn Choate
I Don’t Buy the Mindset Hype — Can Eric Konovalov Change My Mind?

In the entrepreneurial world, “mindset” has become the new buzzword everyone’s whispering reverently… but is it all just smoke and mirrors?

Lately, I’ve felt like the only one daring to ask: Is mindset work actually moving the needle in our businesses, or are we just spinning our wheels at expensive retreats and journaling our way into oblivion?

Instead of nodding along, I decided to challenge the narrative.

I asked around for someone who wouldn’t crumble if I pushed back—and that’s how I ended up in a deep, fiery, and unexpectedly transformative conversation with mindset coach and sales team trainer, Eric Konovalov.


In this episode, we go toe-to-toe on questions like:

❓ Why isn’t my affirmation working?

❓ Can changing your beliefs actually change your results?

❓ How do you upgrade to your “You 2.0”?


And I’ll be honest… I didn’t expect to get called out this hard.

Or to walk away rethinking everything.

If you’ve ever felt like the odd one out in a sea of “just change your mindset” advice, this conversation is for you.

💡 My Takeaways:

  • Mindset isn’t fluffy—it’s the lens for everything else.
  • Competing beliefs will keep you stuck and spinning.
  • You’re not meant to carry every belief you picked up in childhood.
  • Don’t ask “Do I know this already?”—ask “How well do I do this?”
  • Investing in your evolution is never a waste.


Resources from Eric:LinkedIn Prospecting Playbook👉 https://linkedinscripts.thegoalguide.com/linkedin-prospecting-playbook

Get the meeting - prospecting course👉 https://relentlessgoalachievers.com/getthemeeting

Relentless Goal Achievers Tribe 👉 https://relentlessgoalachievers.com/opt-in


📚 My new book, Supercharge Your Website Traffic: 📚 https://amzn.to/4iuB0fC




#mindsetmatters #mindsetcoach #mindsetmotivation #growthmindset

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6 months ago
1 hour 11 minutes 36 seconds

The Financially Free Author Show with Carolyn Choate
Stuck on Your Book Dream? This Course is the Key with guest Erik Seversen

Are you dreaming of publishing your book, but feeling overwhelmed by the process? In this episode, I sit down with author, educator, and publishing pro Erik Seversen, who created a powerful bundle of three self-publishing courses designed to take you from idea to income.Whether you're just getting started or want to scale your publishing efforts, Erik's step-by-step system breaks down the entire journey:✅ Writing your book with clarity and confidence✅ Navigating self-publishing like a pro (no agents or gatekeepers required)✅ Launching your book to actually get it into readers' handsGet the bundle here:https://www.selfpublishingcenter.com/a/2147971394/bvu9EFbxUse code CAROLYN to get 1/3 off! 📘 Erik includes a drop-in open office hours so you can get personal help with any part of the course you need.🎯 If you've been sitting on a book idea or struggling to finish your manuscript, this is your sign to take the leap.

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7 months ago
15 minutes 25 seconds

The Financially Free Author Show with Carolyn Choate
How To Repurpose Podcast Interviews For Maximum Impact with Lyndsay Phillips

Are you showing up on podcasts—but leaving powerful content (and leads!) on the table?Whether you're a coach, consultant, or creative entrepreneur, this is your roadmap to getting way more mileage out of every podcast interview you do.Podcasting expert, Lyndsay Phillips, reveals how to turn your podcast guest appearances into a content goldmine that fuels your business for weeks (or months) to come.If you're using podcast guesting to grow your business but not seeing lasting results—this episode is your wake-up call. Don’t just show up. Leverage. Multiply. Monetize.Links & Resources: 📘 Free Guide: 10 Ways to Repurpose Your Podcast Interviews https://www.leverageyourpodcast.com/guest #PodcastGuesting #ContentRepurposing #EntrepreneurMarketing #LyndsayPhillips #ContentStrategy #GrowYourBusiness #PodcastMarketingSupercharge Your Website Traffic: Unlock The Secrets To Infinite Website Visitors by Carolyn Choate. This book doesn't just dive into one way to bring traffic to your website, it gives you a foundation in all of them and how to know which ones work best for you. Get it here: https://amzn.to/3GoK9sz

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7 months ago
25 minutes 11 seconds

The Financially Free Author Show with Carolyn Choate
Facebook Ads Insider: What You Need To Know [expert tips with Alli Marler]

I asked Alli Marler all of my burning questions about using Facebook ads!❓Does Facebook advertising work for my kind of business?❓How do I know if my Facebook Ads are working?❓How much should I spend on Facebook Ads?❓How can I make Facebook ads less confusing? ❓Can I do this myself or do I need to hire help?📝 Meta Ads Readiness Quiz (to help people know if they're ready for ads) → https://go.allimarler.com/quiz📝 META ADS SOS: Fast Fixes to Get Your Campaigns Back on Track → https://www.allimarler.com/adssosBrought To You By:Supercharge Your Website Traffic: Unlock The Secrets To Infinite Website Visitors by Carolyn Choate. This book doesn't just dive into one way to bring traffic to your website, it gives you a foundation in all of them and how to know which ones work best for you. Learn more at https://websitetrafficschool.org

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7 months ago
28 minutes 21 seconds

The Financially Free Author Show with Carolyn Choate
Find Speaking Opportunities In ONE Step with this AI Tool

If speaking is part of your business in any way, you have to watch today’s podcast episode! James D Feldman is here to show us an AI tool that is absolutely game-changing. My mind was blown as soon as I saw what it can do. Watch and see how it quickly and easily finds me paid speaking engagement opportunities along with email and voicemail scripts highlighting the exact needs from the speaker RFP. You are going to want this powerful tool in your arsenal. Here is my affiliate link to sign up! https://aistagefinder.com/?aff=carolyn.moirFeldman recommends using Paypal financing to get a zero percent interest for six months credit and you’re bound to get paid speaking gigs to pay it off within that time. After you purchase you’ll fill out a short Google form with information about yourself and your business, what you speak on, etc. Feldman and his partner will program the AI backend with your custom information and they will work with you to tweak and perfect it! James D. Feldman, a luminary in innovative problem solving, stands as a beacon of innovation and transformative change, harnessing the power of artificial intelligence to redefine industries. With a robust career spanning over three decades, Feldman has consistently driven advancements that blend technological sophistication with keen operational insights, profoundly enhancing customer experiences and operational efficiencies across diverse organizations.

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8 months ago
20 minutes 42 seconds

The Financially Free Author Show with Carolyn Choate
Make Book Marketing...FUN! with Kelly McClymer

Kelly is the genius writing coach behind Hack Your Muse, helping writers bust through their blocks. Today we're talking about a project we're working on together, a BINGO-type game to get all us authors to do regular and consistent marketing tasks. Marketing our books doesn't have to take hours and Kelly has even turned it into a game. Soon we will have a community available to share our Bingo card wins, provide accountability, and resources. Until that's ready, you can email me at Carolyn@financiallyfreeauthor and I will send you a copy of the card!

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2 years ago
56 minutes 54 seconds

The Financially Free Author Show with Carolyn Choate
Managing Social Media For Authors with Regina Garay

Regina Garay of Right Brain Loves Left is on the podcast to help us with the time management around staying consisten on social media as authors! "People who are right-brained are said to be more creative, intuitive, and imaginative. Those who are left-brained are thought to be more analytical, factual, and logical. Our brain has incredible potential - we are given the gift of both." Check out her cool Business Booster Classes. Listen to the end for a coupon code! https://www.rightbrainlovesleft.com/business-boosters

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2 years ago
24 minutes 9 seconds

The Financially Free Author Show with Carolyn Choate
Podcast Takeover: My Friend Interviews Me About The Book Launch Planner!

My friend Melissa from Moonbridge Marketing was so surprised when I announced I had a Book Launch Planner ready to go! She called with lots of questions and then thought others might have the same questions so she came on the podcast to ask me all about it! Here's where you can get the Book Launch Planner: https://bit.ly/BookLaunchPlanner I kept telling myself I didn't know how to do a "proper" book launch, that there was some secret magic formula that I didn't have. But then I started interviewing book launch experts and studying everything that publishers are doing to launch books and what I found was that I already knew all the techniques they were utilizing. So I synthesized everything I saw and all the book launch strategies I've used for my own books when I owned a small publishing company and combined it into the most comprehensive book launch planner out there. I created it for myself at first because I wanted no guesswork. I wanted to lay out every single step in order down to the day to build the biggest and best book launch.

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2 years ago
10 minutes 36 seconds

The Financially Free Author Show with Carolyn Choate
PR Is Not Optional For Authors with Lilian Sue

As a PR coach and publicist, Lilian is in the storytelling and relationship building business. She empowers authors to push past limiting beliefs and gain the confidence to learn how to build strong PR and marketing mindsets and learn how to build and launch successful PR campaigns. Why? Because she believes that inside every author is the potential to become a global industry leader and it is her goal to make sure that they feel empowered and have the confidence to advocate for their goals when working with a publicist or PR agency as well as the tools and knowledge to launch their own strategies. It’s why she’s currently launching a crowdfunding campaign to fund her debut nonfiction PR book, The Publicity Prescription, along with the companion workbook and glossary, to educate authors and creative entrepreneurs on the power of PR, give them actionable tips on how to develop everything from an exciting media kit to a compelling media pitch and how to recognize and push past fear, anxiety and imposter syndrome. https://crowdfundr.com/publicityprescription?ref=ab_7kBO4I1tlyU7kBO4I1tlyU Through her product suite of 1:1 coaching, courses, workshops, and campaign services, she provides authors with the personalized guidance to push past the mindset blocks stopping their teams from moving forward to gain clarity on goals and marketing ideas, strategies and give non-profits perspective on how they can position their stories to captivate, entertain, educate and inform audiences the right way and how to build positive relationships with key media to leverage the trust and credibility they have with their audiences, to help build their reputations and support for their causes. Website: www.inretrospectwritingservices.com About My Book: www.subscribepage.com/publicityprescription IG: www.instagram.com/liliansuecopywriterpr Twitter: www.twitter.com/LSue23 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/liliansue/

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2 years ago
38 minutes 35 seconds

The Financially Free Author Show with Carolyn Choate
Learn BookBrush for promo images of your books with Dana Claire, COO

I am so excited to bring you this interview and demo with Dana, the COO of BookBrush, which is a realy cool software to help you create all the promo images your books need! https://www.bookbrush.com Get onto my email list at https://www.financiallyfreeauthor.com/freeguide before Wednesday June 7th so you can enter the giveaway for a free ticket to Book Mar Con! https://bookbrush.com/bookmarcon/

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2 years ago
55 minutes 9 seconds

The Financially Free Author Show with Carolyn Choate
Leverage LinkedIn & Build Relationships with Janice Porter

Create Business Relationships that Last & Close More Sales. Build relationships online and nurture them offline using the 7 STEPS TO BUILD SOLID BUSINESS RELATIONSHIPS THAT LAST (& GROW YOUR BUSINESS) in this FREE download https://www.janiceporter.com/#7Steps

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2 years ago
30 minutes

The Financially Free Author Show with Carolyn Choate
How To Stand Out From The Crowd On LinkedIn with Deanna Russo

Leverage Up with the LinkedIn TRIANGLE STRATEGY that Builds Relationships and Gets Results. https://leverageupllc.com/

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2 years ago
30 minutes 51 seconds

The Financially Free Author Show with Carolyn Choate
How To Grow Your Business Through Public Speaking with Jenn Espinosa Goswami

The signature speech template: https://bit.ly/signaturespeak

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2 years ago
35 minutes 24 seconds

The Financially Free Author Show with Carolyn Choate
Self-Publishing in South Africa with Mart-Mari Breedt

Mart-Mari is on the podcast to tell us about her experience self-publishing a book about her weight loss journey. It will be so interesting to hear how the process is the same and different in South Africa v.s. America! See her books here: https://amzn.to/3B1cIGT

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2 years ago
27 minutes 40 seconds

The Financially Free Author Show with Carolyn Choate
Brave Healer Business Accelerator with Laura DiFranco

The Brave Healer Business Accelerator Program is a seven week program designed for those looking to tell their stroy and use that stroy to grow their business. Laura DiFranco is the founder of the publishing company Brave Healer Productions, helping healers become authors and expand their impact on the world. More about the Business Accelerator Program here https://lauradifranco.com/business-accelerator/

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2 years ago
24 minutes 2 seconds

The Financially Free Author Show with Carolyn Choate
Managing Stress with Amanda Kostura

Amanda from https://www.carvemypath.org/ is here to talk about the mind-body connection and how to utilize it to manage stress.


This episode is sponsored by me! 


Schedule a funnel mapping strategy session so we can go through your business, your goals, and your plans together and you’ll get a custom diagram of your perfect ideal funnel. 


And you’ll have the option to have me build it all for you in just one week with a Funnel By Friday. 


 Schedule your session for just $150 here: https://www.financiallyfreeauthor.com/funnel-map

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2 years ago
19 minutes 45 seconds

The Financially Free Author Show with Carolyn Choate
Self Publishing Doesn't Mean Publishing Alone

Ally E. Machate is a bestselling author and expert publishing consultant leading serious authors toward success since 1999. She leverages experience with Big Five publishing and indie bestsellers, along with her team of skilled experts, to serve as your books’ best ally with editing, design, publishing, and marketing services and support. Find out more and get free gifts at www.thewritersally.com.


This episode is sponsored by me! Schedule a funnel mapping strategy session so we can go through your business, your goals, and your plans together and you’ll get a custom diagram of your perfect ideal funnel.


And you’ll have the option to have me build it all for you in just one week with a Funnel By Friday.


Schedule your session for just $150 here: https://www.financiallyfreeauthor.com/funnel-map

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2 years ago
36 minutes 32 seconds

The Financially Free Author Show with Carolyn Choate
If you're a solopreneur, author, or small business owner who is perplexed by marketing, this podcast is for you! Join me as I interview experts in website traffic, tools for online businesses, and get our burning questions answered. Like, what is the role of blogging in 2025? How do Facebook ads work for small businesses? How can I learn to publish my own books?